Seeing the most important target, he was already one step ahead of the second battalion. Although Shen Ping, the commander of the third battalion, was half angry to death, he could only turn helplessly. Fortunately, a considerable part of the puppet army and most of the local puppet regime personnel retreated to the pseudo-plainclothes team headquarters and police stations. This made him feel a little comforted.

As for the Japanese gendarmerie, it is now less than twenty people, together with the remnants of the Japanese troops who have been evacuated there. For him, there is almost the same as nothing. He just sent two platoons to deal with these twenty or so Japanese troops. He used his main forces to deal with the remnants of the Japanese puppet army who were huddled in the pseudo-plainclothes squad and the police station.

With the support of Zhou Tong's mountain artillery entering the city, it didn't take much effort to solve the remaining remnants of the puppet army. After a mountain shell blew a big hole in the wall of the pseudo-plainclothes team, the puppet army inside and the puppet army in the puppet police station on the side cleanly disarmed and surrendered.

The remaining 20 or so remaining Japanese troops retreated to a house and tried desperately to resist. was driven out of the house by Zhou Tong's shells, and was driven back by Shen Ping's machine gun and *. As soon as the Japanese army shrank, Zhou Tong put the mountain gun, which had become a flat-fire gun at this time, and opened fire, shooting the shells directly into the Japanese army's hidden house.

When the shells drove the Japanese out, Shen Ping was using a machine gun to drive them back. How many troops did the more than 20 Japanese troops have, enough for the two of them to toss like this. After only three shells, more than 20 Japanese troops were basically tossed by the two of them.

On the contrary, it took a lot of effort to solve the more than 20 stubborn Japanese soldiers in the Japanese military police. The house of the Japanese military police in Hubei was built extremely strongly. The coordinated infantry shells hit it, and only a small hole could be blown out. The attack route around the perimeter was quite narrow, and the attacking troops could not be used at all.

The Japanese turtle cowered into the house and shot desperately, and for a while it was very rampant. The second battalion and the fourth company of the gendarmerie attacked the gendarmerie and finally resorted to the method of earth poison gas bombs after many failed strong attacks. After pouring kerosene on the firewood in the upwind place, a large amount of chili noodles were added to it, and even the old vinegar of Linshan West was continuously added to it.

A thick smoke came down, and the Japanese soldiers who were choked and couldn't stand it rushed out. Trying to eliminate this bad eight ways, a machine gun plus * after a bayonet battle. More than 10 minutes later, none of the more than 20 Japanese soldiers escaped the net, and all of them were killed in the courtyard of the Japanese military police.

Although the remnants of the Japanese army retreated in the Japanese gendarmerie and caused some trouble to the troops, Li Ziyuan's overall plan was finally realized. Within three hours, the battle was completely resolved and the county seat of Hubei was recaptured. This was the first time that Hubei County was recovered by the Eighth Route Army after it was occupied by the Japanese army.

A puppet army of a reinforced battalion consisting of five companies, as well as the rear organs that remained behind, and most of the squadron of the Japanese army left behind. There are also more than 50 pseudo-policemen and more than 20 pseudo-plainclothes squad left-behind personnel. Except for the six squads stationed around the county and several important strongholds, the rest of the troops were all annihilated.

It's just that all the Japanese troops were killed, and none of them were lucky enough to slip through the net. But the puppet army did not kill much, and most of them became prisoners of the second battalion in a daze. In addition to liberating Hubei County, solving this pseudo-security independent division, and remaining in the division headquarters in Hubei County.

Li Ziyuan also served the military and political system of the puppet Hubei County, except for the Pingchuan puppet garrison headquarters, almost all of them. Almost none of the traitors in the city escaped the net, and basically none of the people left behind by the Japanese puppet army ran out. Not counting weapons and ammunition, four were captured in just a complete radio station. The whole battle lasted less than three hours from the beginning to the end.

After solving the remaining Japanese puppet army in the city, Li Ziyuan ordered all the troops participating in the battle to immediately clean up the entire Hubei County and confiscate the property of the enemy puppet traitors. Ordered a battalion to hold on to the spot, and sent a part of the troops to monitor the movements of Wang Tieshi's troops in the north, as well as the activities of the puppet army left behind on the Pingchuan line.

The main force of the 2nd Battalion was ordered to immediately withdraw from Hubei County, strengthen a 92nd Infantry Artillery and cooperate with the reconnaissance company, and sweep the Japanese puppet army strongholds around Hubei County. Li Ziyuan's order to Huo Yan, the commander of the second battalion, was to pull out all the remaining Japanese puppet army strongholds within 10 kilometers of the surrounding area in the shortest possible time. The artillery towers of the Japanese puppet army can be burned down, but they can't be burned down by organizing troops and fellow villagers.

In this battle, Li Ziyuan not only caught more than 500 puppet army prisoners, but also caught a few big fish. In addition to the pseudo-Hubei County magistrate and the pseudo-Hubei County Police Chief. There was also a township cleansing commissioner sent by the puppet Shanxi Provincial Government, an adviser sent by the Japanese to the puppet Shanxi Provincial Government, and a sweeping supervisor sent by the First Army to Hubei County.

He also caught the chief of staff of the puppet division and a large number of puppet army dependents at the puppet division headquarters. Just the official's wife, thirty or forty were arrested. The three wives of the puppet army division commander, and the two widows of the deputy division commander who were divided equally between the puppet army division commander and the chief of staff, all became Li Ziyuan's prisoners. There are also a large number of classified documents recovered from the puppet county government, the police station, the gendarmerie and the plainclothes squad.

From the prison of the Hubei Puppet Police Station, a group of arrested party, government and military personnel in Ludong were rescued. and the young and middle-aged people who were captured when the Japanese puppet army swept the Ludong area this year. It's a pity that Liu Kaishan, this guy, took his plainclothes team to cooperate with the Japanese army to sweep up. let this guy escape again.

However, the materials that this guy hoarded in the county were all packed and taken away by Li Ziyuan. When he returned, the loss of belongings alone was enough for him to vomit blood. At the same time, a large number of baggage prepared by the Japanese puppet army for this sweep, and the ammunition, weapons and materials hoarded by the puppet army were also unceremoniously swept away by Li Ziyuan.

Li Ziyuan also raided all the homes of the puppet military and police personnel in Hubei County. Together with the shops opened by the Japanese in the city, especially Western pharmacies and hospitals, Li Ziyuan became the target of Li Ziyuan's key sweep. At the time of evacuation, all the files in Hubei County, the Japanese puppet army, were also packed and taken away.

The puppet Hubei County magistrate, the puppet police chief, the tax bureau chief, the Japanese adviser who really held the real power, and several puppet military and political special personnel who committed the most heinous crimes, plus the chief of staff of the puppet military division, were shot by Li Ziyuan on the spot. But Li Ziyuan did not embarrass other ordinary puppet military and police personnel, and even a deputy regiment commander of the captured puppet army was not embarrassed.

Together with the captured ordinary puppet officers and soldiers, most of them were released on the spot. Of course, Li Ziyuan looked at the group of strong captives, and he also had a thought. After Qian Peng's mobilization, more than a hundred recruits were replenished among the captives. And in the county town of Hubei, more than a hundred recruits were mobilized.

At the same time, using the money confiscated from the traitor's home, a large number of cloth, kerosene, salt and other daily necessities were raised. The dry batteries and medicines in the city were almost bought up by Li Ziyuan. Of course, there are also some sugar, milk powder and other nutritional products that are scarce or invisible in the mountains.

After a morning of collecting supplies, as well as raiding the house and carrying out the execution. Li Ziyuan's attack on Hubei County this time can be described as a full return. Just the guns and ammunition hoarded by the puppet army, as well as the materials mobilized by the Japanese army to Hubei to support the sweep, were enough to pull more than 30 carts.

Not counting the captured rifle machine gun bullets, more than a dozen boxes were pulled just by making * bullets. There are also fifty or sixty boxes made in the Northeast, and the mules that pull the carts are whirring and panting. The Japanese army hoarded mountain artillery and infantry shells here, and even captured thousands of rounds. There are also a large number of grenadier canisters*, as well as Japanese*.

For machine guns, two Type 92 heavy machine guns and two Jin-made heavy machine guns were captured, and one Danish-made light and heavy dual-purpose machine gun was captured. Three crooked-handle light machine guns, and five Czech-style light machine guns. As for the Jin-made Type 38 rifle and other caliber rifles, thousands of them were captured. Of course, in addition to the captured Japanese puppet army, the reserve weapons of the puppet army division have also become trophies.

It's a pity that the seven trucks that were seized, plus the two motorcycles, could not be taken with them. Fortunately, the veterans of the reconnaissance company can basically drive, and these seven trucks can also be of some use when transferring supplies. Otherwise, the seized materials may not be able to be taken away by those carts alone.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Ziyuan to transfer with these materials. He sent a platoon plus a squad of a reconnaissance company and handed over to a deputy company commander on escort duty. The escort of the supplies and the wounded was immediately transferred to the old base area through the junction of Hubei and Huguan. Find a hidden place to find the supplies and clear the field on the spot.

After completing their mission, they returned directly to the eastern mountains to join up with the separate battalion that remained to fight on the inner line. Cooperate with the Hubei Independent Battalion, as well as the Hubei County Party Committee and the county government, and persist in the internal struggle. After the platoon commander left, Li Ziyuan directly led the troops without dragging the mud and water at all, and killed them all the way in the direction of Huguan in the west.

When burning a car, it should never be burned at the site where the material is buried. Be sure to drive the truck farther away, at a point where it is burned so as not to expose the fortified material. The seized gasoline is first buried, and it is not allowed to be used when burning cars, and the gasoline must be handed over to military districts and military subdivisions.

After replenishing the ammunition for the troops, Li Ziyuan quickly left Hubei County with the troops. didn't do any concealment, all the way to the direction of the kettle, swaggering straight through. The second battalion in the vanguard, under the cover of the open action of the troops, rushed in the direction of Changzhi Airport.

Li Ziyuan was very generous this time, and he didn't even restrict smoking in the troops. Not only did they not restrict the troops from smoking, but they also gave each of the soldiers who smoked three packs of high-grade cigarettes such as the Three Forts or Hademen that were copied from the warehouse opened by the county magistrate of the puppet Hubei County, plus a pack of matches.

There are many cadres and soldiers in the army who smoke, although Li Ziyuan does not approve of soldiers smoking, because it is seriously harmful to the lungs and trachea. But he also knew that smoking was a common practice in the army, so it was not completely stopped. It's just that recruits are absolutely not allowed to smoke, and they also hope to help some soldiers quit their addiction to smoking.

Cadres and soldiers who smoke usually smoke themselves, using tobacco leaves and paper rolls, or holding a cigarette pouch at all. The tobacco leaves of cigarettes are generally the cheapest, or they are grown by the farmers themselves. When there were no tobacco leaves, many people smoked even dried leaves.

As for high-end cigarettes, ordinary cadres and soldiers can't afford them, even the most ordinary old knife brand cigarettes. This time, Li Ziyuan simply gave out three packs of cigarettes per person, which were still high-end cigarettes such as Hademen or Three Forts, which made the cadres and soldiers who smoked too addicted to smoking.